The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-06-02
Iowa, and Private Steyer, Second Mary
land. Many companies will leave to-
night and tomorrow.
CLEVELAND VS.. SHERMAN.
The Leaders OF the Opposing Forces In the Next
Presidential Fight.

Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania,
has been talking politics little. Here is
what he said: : -l.a.55--.
81 will tell you what will be the ticket
next year. President Cleveland will head
the Democratic and Senator Sherman the
Republican. All this Blaine talk of the
Pennsylvania leaders makes me smile.
want until they get to the convention and
YOU. will find out. They will take no
chances. Unless some very exceptional
condition of affairs arises they will not be
! likely to take a candidate handicapped as
Blaine is with defeat in two nominating
conventions and once before the country,
! which shows that there is no harmony in
| the general sentiment of the party, no mat
ter what may be the enthusiasm Of his per
sonal followers. If the Republicans should
commit the folly of putting him ON the
| ticket again it will not be the old fight, but
a very new one. There's where Blaine's
| friends are blind to the natural tendency of
public sentiment.
"In the campaign of 1884 the Democratic
party was heavily handicapped by two very
important influences; the first was the fear
of tho industrial and other material interests
of the probable policy of the party on the
great financial and economic questions; the
other was the uncertainty Of the ability of
MIR. Cleveland, Notwithstanding the high
character of his previous brief public
record to carry out the pledges which he
had made in the interest Of reform and
good government. Those fears will not
weigh i'll the balance in favor Of Mr.. Blaine
another time. The President has gained
the confidence of the whole people for con-
scrvatism and regard for the public interest
above party or personal considerations.
With him at the head of the ticket no eX-
plantations are required. He has simply to
point to the record. Therefore the two
candidates would stand upon their merits.
| Then the fear Of high handed partisanship
| would be the other way. A great many
business men will recognize the prudence
| Of Mr.. Cleveland and will not be in a great
hurry to make change. The strength OF
Sherman would be in his conceded cOnscr
vati&m and his soundness on all the great
| issues"
The Governor added: "Since Congress
adjourncd | have talked with great many
people in and out of public life in New
York, Philadelphia, Washington and else
where, and have come to the conclusion
that there is great deal of quiet thinking
going OF among the Republicans in REGARD
to the choice Of Il man to beat Mr. ClevC
land. They know they have big Job on
their hands and don't intend to make an,
, mistakes if they can prevent it,
Governor Curtin is also taking deep in
| lcICSt III The new birth OF industrial pro
grcSs in the South. He said: "In tn,
very face of the revival Of industrial activ
ity North and South, we arc confronted by
large importatons Of iron, which will glu
the market and interfere with the Ccmant
for cur home product. The Sothern pro
duct IS now becoming competitor Will
: the product Of the North in our home mar
kct which is for the good of our iron pco
pie, no matter how it goes, but this foreign
product benefits no one The labor and
The profits all belong to foreign countries.
Ihc Southern people must begin to sec
that II they want Il market for their pro-
ducts it must be II home market and their
competition should he confined to home
products and not imported. They should
have presented painfully before them the
industrial history Of Pennsylvania. That
will give them practical lessons in the ben
ci!lS OF an industrial policy which will Sc
cure 10 them Il market which will be more
certain and immediate in its substantial re
suits than any chincricul ideas OF spccula-
tive markets, which exist solely in the
Sophis'iral infcrcnccs OF pro-BritiSh econ
Omic doctrines, or free trade"